1. My great-grandfather was a soldier in the First World War.
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2. He was a Sikh, from the Punjab, a group that was heavily recruited by the British army after the 1857 rebellion.
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3. On the hundred anniversary of WWI & 96th anniversary of its end I want to think about imperial soldiers like my great-grand father
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4. According to family lore, after the war ended, my great-grandfather waited for British to send him back to India. Then got impatient.
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5. Tired of waiting, he started walking back to India, hitching rides, stowing away. (I'm pretty sure this story isn't true.).
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There's a novel 'Hira Singh' by Talbot Mundy (1917) the tale of a couple of Sikh soldiers in FWW who walk back to India from Europe
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Didn't know about that novel. Will look up!
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I may be able to help you research more about your gt grandfather
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